Word: indifferentism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Men. Lanky, towheaded Sidney Wood got a scare from Gilbert Hall who was leading 6-3, 6-3, 4-6, 4-6, 4-2. Then Wood ran out four games for the match. Refused permission to wear spikes, Czech Roderick Menzel played shoeless. Champion Fred Perry, too indifferent to win...
Charles Wurts, Philadelphia broker, wrote Texas' Senator Tom Connally: "It is my fervent hope that your favorable vote for the Public Utilities Holding Company Bill will result in your losing your seat in the Senate." Replied Senator Connally: "I have your intimidating letter. ... I am wholly indifferent to your...
Beneath Helen Jacobs' first wish to be a tennis player there must have been a furious hope to be like her famed neighbor. The irony of her success was that the more she became like Helen Wills the more dramatically she emphasized the differences between them. For Helen Wills Moody...
The traditional orchids and my own humble commendations to you for your splendid, intelligent and unbiased analysis of our "Father" Hutchins and this noble university with its eminently successful "New Plan" [TIME, June 24]. Adored by the co-eds and admired by the rest of us, Prexy Hutchins is backed...
Unlike most historians, Du Bois candidly admits that he has an ax to grind, declares that "the mass of American writers have started out so to distort the facts of the greatest critical period of American history as to prove right wrong and wrong right." Calling the roll of historians...